When we arrive at the old market the kids greet us and show us the plans they have made over the past week.
We had planed to make the first part of the day about marking out and then move to a little cleaning after lunch. The kids really surprise us, however, with how eager to clean they are. As soon as the brooms are unloaded the kids take them off and begin sweeping and cleaning.
So we change our plans and one group continues to clean while another group goes to mark out with string all the areas that they made in the model of the previous week and the kids' new drawings, designating where the football field, volleyball court, gardens and playground will eventually be.
The cleaning continues to build in strength with other, older members of the community joining in and shifting lots of rubble and rubbish. One local leader, Pi Un, calls Ploy aside to tell her of some concerns community members have about how prone to flood the site is. He suggests some alterations to the plan to include levelling of the site to prevent the current on-site ponding.
By the end of the day the site has changed a lot. Everyone is tired and dirty but satisfied with all that we had done.
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